PRB: Deployment or New Deployment Target Creation Brings Error

ID: Q220843

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

When creating a new Deployment Target in Visual InterDev 6.0, you may receive the following error message:

Microsoft Development Environment is unable to contact the requested network server. Either the target does not exist, or it is currently unreachable.

Choose "OK" to save target information, or "Cancel" to dismiss target information.

Or, when deploying Web content, controls, and applets with Visual InterDev 6.0 Deployment Explorer, you may receive the following error in the Task List:

Failed to deploy a file(C:\TEMP\ADOUTILS.ASP): The Web server returned the following error: Server Error.

CAUSE

The Visual InterDev 6.0 Deployment Explorer requires installation of either the Microsoft FrontPage server extensions or the Microsoft Posting Acceptor on the target system.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

REFERENCES

For additional information about the Visual InterDev Deployment feature, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q219050 HOWTO: Deploy Web Applications With Visual InterDev 6.0

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbDeployment kbExtension kbFrontPage kbServer kbVisID600 kbWebServer kbGrpASP kbFrontPageX
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb